All Stendhal Quotes
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
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This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.
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A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
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Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
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She had caprices of a marvellous unexpectedness, and how is any one to imitate a caprice?
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Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.
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The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.
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The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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